Poetic Meter and Poetic Form"This book might be required reading for all students of poetry because it makes wonderfully clear the relationship of metrics to the formal achievement of meaning ... Fussell's command of his subject and his never-failing common sense will guarantee ... enrichment for anyone who takes the time to read this book."--Frank Lentricchia, Jr., PoetryDonated by Prabu Vasan. |
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... Writing to Cleanth Brooks about an explication which Brooks had undertaken of one of his poems , Eliot ob- served ... written words before us and how much " in " the reader's mind and musculature . We can say , however , that meter ...
... Writing to Cleanth Brooks about an explication which Brooks had undertaken of one of his poems , Eliot ob- served ... written words before us and how much " in " the reader's mind and musculature . We can say , however , that meter ...
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... written in quatrains - as well as that written in blank verse and heroic couplets - what would remain would resemble the literary corpus of , say , Luxembourg . The simplest quatrain is the ballad stanza , consisting usually of ...
... written in quatrains - as well as that written in blank verse and heroic couplets - what would remain would resemble the literary corpus of , say , Luxembourg . The simplest quatrain is the ballad stanza , consisting usually of ...
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... writing " In a Country Churchyard " or " On a Seat by a Yew Tree . " Actually , poems are written not in the great outdoors where papers blow about and where one has no access to dictionaries , but at desks ; their rhythms come as often ...
... writing " In a Country Churchyard " or " On a Seat by a Yew Tree . " Actually , poems are written not in the great outdoors where papers blow about and where one has no access to dictionaries , but at desks ; their rhythms come as often ...
Contents
The Nature of Meter | 3 |
The Technique of Scansion | 17 |
Metrical Variations | 30 |
Copyright | |
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